As you had some questions about US Embassy move to Jerusalem, here's some info:

Monday: While U.S.is officially moving its embassy to Jerusalem today and there are reports of "Palestinians killed by Israelis" at the border with Gaza, let's not forget: Army shoot men planting bomb, strike Hamas post after gunmen fire at troops; protesters hurl rocks, burn tires ahead of US embassy inauguration; IDF vows to prevent border breach (Times of Israel) The TV news keeps showing Jerusalem celebration and Gaza border, not mentioning activities at the border are being sponsored by a terrorist group, Hamas, and seeming to forget about the PA. Additionally, the reports infrequently mention that the Gaza region is also bordered by a wall with Egypt. Amanpour, in a seemingly contradictory statement, just reminded viewers that Hamas doesn't believe in a diplomatic solution while scolding the US for moving embassy to Jerusalem and thus removing a possible diplomatic lever. I did hear at least one person on CNN mention that moving the US embassy to Jerusalem does not prevent the Palestinians from also having a capital in Jerusalem. One has to wonder why the US Administration is apparently sabotaging their message by putting pastors like Hagee and Jeffress in keynote postions.

Dozens of Countries Participate in Israel's Celebrations of U.S. Embassy Move - Noa Landau (Ha'aretz) 

Hoping to Break Through Border Fence, Hamas Posts Maps to Show Gazans Shortest Routes to Israeli Communities (i24News) On Sunday, Hamas posted pictures and maps on social media showing the shortest routes from the border fence to nearby Israeli communities in case Palestinian rioters manage to breach the security fence. 

Israel Drops Leaflets Warning Palestinians to Avoid Gaza Border (Jerusalem Post) Israeli planes dropped leaflets in Gaza on Monday ahead of expected protests along the border with Israel, warning Palestinians not to approach the security fence. "You are taking part in violent riots which jeopardize your lives. Hamas is taking advantage of you in order to hide its failures," they read. With the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday followed by Nakba Day and the beginning of Ramadan on Tuesday, the IDF is gearing up for several days of violence. 

Video: Hamas Plans to Carry Out a Massacre in Israel (IDF Spokesperson) On Monday, May 14, Hamas plans to send armed terrorists among 250,000 violent rioters to swarm and breach Israel's border with Gaza and enter Israeli communities. Hamas plans to carry out a massacre in Israel. The Israel Defense Forces will not let them. 

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From Honest Reporting: For the second consecutive week, Palestinian rioters at the Kerem Shalom border crossing destroyed gas lines and other infrastructure — on the Gaza side of the crossing. The IDF estimated the rioters caused around $9 million in damage forcing Israel to close it until further notice. The destruction sounds senseless until you see what Gaza sources told Ynet about how Hamas benefits from Kerem Shalom’s closure:

A Palestinian source in Gaza, meanwhile, told Ynet that Hamas has been profiteering considerably as a result of the crossing’s destruction. The Kerem Shalom crossing is operated by the Palestinian Crossings Authority, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA) rather than Hamas, he noted.

The source then explained that Hamas was encouraging rioters to damage crossings, thereby causing the PA to lose revenue from customs and other taxes levied on incoming goods.

Bringing the goods in through the Rafah border crossing, the source added, will allow Hamas to pocket such tax levies.

The past week or so Israelis were wearing pink in honor of the Giro d'Italia Cycling event that started in Jerusalem and ends in Rome. See this link for more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/sport/giro-ditalia-preview-jerusalem-cycling-spt/index.html

Netanyahu Answers Critics Who Say There's Nothing New in Iran Nuclear Archive - Noa Landau  (Ha'aretz) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday answered criticism on the Iranian nuclear documents seized by Israeli intelligence, saying that "anyone who says there's nothing new in the material we showed has not seen the material....To those who say that this proves why you need the deal, I say that a deal that enables Iran to keep and hide all its nuclear weapons know-how is a horrible deal. And the last thing you can say about it is that it blocks all of Iran's paths to the bomb."

Iran's Regional Adventurism and Proliferation of Missile Technology Is Off the Charts - Norman Roule (Cipher Brief) Iran seems to have met its JCPOA obligations. There are aspects of this deal which go on in perpetuity. Iran has destroyed the guts, the center, of its plutonium reactor. That cannot be undone. Iran has also agreed it will never undertake activity that could allow it to develop a nuclear weapon. Should we discover it is doing so, we would be able to snap back on sanctions. Regarding every other area of malign activity, Iran is off the charts. Iran is transforming the DNA of the region with its export of advanced missile technology and its creation of surrogate groups.

Gaza border protests Video from Honest Reporting (PLEASE WATCH)

IDF's Defense at the Gaza Border: What's the Truth?

Hamas Telegram Channel Celebrates Bin Laden on the Anniversary of His Death(MEMRI)

Israel Attacks 50 Iranian Targets in Syria after Iran Targets Israeli Bases - Yoav Zitun (Ynet News) After Iranian forces in Syria launched a rocket attack on Israeli army bases in the Golan Heights early Thursday, the IDF attacked more than 50 Iranian targets in Syria

The West Betrays the Kurds - Giulio Meotti (Gatestone Institute)

Hizbullah Allies Gain in Lebanon Vote - Tom Perry (Reuters) Western-backed Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri lost over a third of his seats with 21 MPs, down from 33.

Jordan's Economy Is Under Siege (Economist-UK) Jordan gives shelter to 656,000 Syrians who have fled the war and has spent $10 billion to cope with the influx. Meanwhile, aid from Gulf states has dried up.

Hizbullah Chief Pledges Loyalty to Iran's Supreme Leader - Amir Toumaj (Long War Journal) Nasrallah's speech confirms that Hizbullah is an arm of the Iranian government and the Lebanese branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Tweet from Gatestone Institute "The #Gaza Strip could be a livable environment if the #Egyptians opened the #Rafah terminal to allow the world to come and help the #Palestinians living there." - @KhaledAbuToameh https://buff.ly/2FCSnZ8 

Israel Signs Deal with PA to Transfer Control of Electrical Infrastructure - Max Schindler (Jerusalem Post)
Business Insider: Israel ‘Stomping on Iran’ - Daniel Pomerantz  (Honest Reporting) This at a time when the Syrian civil war has already killed over half a million people…with Iranian support.
Why Netanyahu's Revelations Are Significant - Matthew Kroenig (Atlantic Council)

Arab League Backs Morocco for Cutting Off Ties with Iran (AP)

Morocco Cuts Ties with Iran for Sending Weapons to Polisario- Amira El Masaiti (AP-Washington Post)

Video - Behind the Smoke Screen: Hamas Unrest in Gaza - Pierre Rehov (Vimeo) An 11-minute video about the reality of the "peaceful protests" in Gaza

AP Exposes Hamas Definition of ‘Non-Violence’ - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting)

Palestinian charged with asking IDF to shoot him to get Hamas stipend - Ilana Curiel  (Ynet News)

Missile Attack in Syria Kills 26, Mostly Iranians - Bassem Mroue (AP)

Saudi Crown Prince: Palestinians Should Take What the U.S. Offers - Barak Ravid (Axios)

Turks, Saudis, UAE Pouring Funds into East Jerusalem - Sue Surkes (Times of Israel)

Can you believe it, US at war over 16 yrs and still no draft!

220 Airstrikes on Palestinians; World Yawns - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) While all eyes are set on the weekly demonstrations organized by Hamas and other Palestinian factions along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, as part of the so-called March of Return, a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus is facing a wide-scale military offensive and ethnic cleansing by the Syrian army and its allies. The war crimes committed against the Palestinians in Yarmouk camp have so far failed to prompt an ounce of outrage.... The international community seems to differentiate between a Palestinian shot by an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian shot by a Syrian soldier.

Taliban announces onset of ‘Al Khandaq Jihadi operations’ - Bill Roggio (Long War Journal) US forces in Afghanistan are the primary target of operations. In a follow-up article, this author says: (US) State’s repetitive call for the Taliban to make peace demonstrates an unthinkable fundamental misunderstanding of the Taliban and its goals some 16 years after the US first entered Afghanistan.

Headline Fail: Sanitizing a Hamas Terrorist - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting)

Internal Hamas Rift Blocks Deal to End Gaza Border Marches - Daniel Siryoti (Israel Hayom) A senior Egyptian intelligence official said Sinwar was furious with Haniyeh and accused him of coordinating Hamas policy with Tehran rather than with the group's own leadership. 

The Need to Tackle Iran's Reactionary Ideology in Africa - Heshmat Alavi (Al Arabiya)

Iran's Khamenei Urges Muslim Nations to Unite Against U.S. (Reuters)

How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis - David Horovitz (Times of Israel)

Classified U.S. Report Says Palestinian Refugees Number 30,000 - Adam Kredo (Washington Free Beacon)

New York Times Corrects Calling Palestinian Payments to Terrorists "Far-Right Conspiracy" - Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)

Russians Buy Kurdistan's Oil Pipelines to Turkey - Dmitry Zhdannikov (Reuters)

Report: U.S. Bolsters Military Presence in Syria - David Enders (The National-Abu Dhabi)

Britain's New Navy Base in Bahrain Marks Return to East of Suez - Con Coughlin (The National-Abu Dhabi)

Hizbullah Operations in Columbia Revealed (Ynet News)  Hizbullah's presence and activities have been confirmed by the Columbian police after a three-year investigation carried out jointly with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Spanish language news website Infobae reported.  Hizbullah is involved in drug dealing, selling and exporting stolen vehicles, and money laundering, alongside recruiting locals for future terror-related activities.  Supporters are recruited at local mosques and community centers and they are sent to Lebanon with "scholarships."

This just goes to show how seriously we should take the Simon Wiesenthal Center warning on Yom Hashoah. A new study released on Yom Hashoah found that 22% of millennials said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust and that two-thirds didn’t know what Auschwitz was.

PA Holocaust abuse: Photo of concentration camp victims misrepresented as Arab victims of Jews - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) Just days before Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day, Palestinian Authority Holocaust abuse and exploitation has reached a new low. PA TV misappropriated a photo showing hundreds of dead bodies at the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, originally a subcamp of Buchenwald, presenting them as Arabs killed by Jews on April 9, 1948 in the Arab village of Deir Yassin.

Hamas Practices Breaching Gaza Security Fence and Abducting IDF Soldiers (Israel Hayom)

Hamas Attacks Israel - and the World Condemns Israel - Larry Haas (The Hiill)

What the New York Times Isn't Telling You about Israel's Gaza "Blockade" - Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)  Some Times accounts mention Egypt's participation in the "blockade," while others omit it.  Yet in one week in March 2018, 2,728 trucks entered Gaza from Israel carrying 74,202 tons of supplies. In addition, Israel supplies electricity to Gaza via ten power lines. And Israel supplies water to Gaza via two pipelines. Some "blockade."

Report: Syrian Military Moving to Russian Bases   (AFP-i24News)

Syria to chair UN disarmament forum on chemical & nuclear weapons; watchdog calls on US & EU to walk out (UN Watch)

Where’s the Coverage? Syria Violates Demilitarized Buffer Zone with Israel (CAMERA)

Yemeni Rebels Target Saudi Oil Industry - Jeremy Binnie (IHS Jane's Defence Weekly)

Since I have been asked what's happening with Hamas at the Gaza/Israel border, I've included lots of links on that subject this week.

U.S. Fines Norwegian NGO $2M for Supporting Palestinian Terror Groups - Ray Downs (UPI)
Norwegian NGO Provided Material Support to Iran, Hamas (U.S. Department of Justice)

Myths and Facts: Gaza’s Deadly 'Protests'  - Daniel Pomerantz (Honest Reporting)

Hamas Uses Human Shields and the Washington Post - Sean Durns (Daily Caller)

BBC journalist asks: What's wrong with Hamas?(BBC Watch)

Gaza Reality Check: Terrorist-Run Territories Produce Terrorism - Charles Bybelezer (Media Line-Jerusalem Post) Hamas' purpose was to see much more bloodshed and to inflame the whole area....The question of whether Israel acted correctly must be viewed in this context.  

Just in case anybody forgot what Hamas’s ‘March of Return’ is really all about - David Horovitz (Times of Israel) Gaza's terrorist rulers make no secret of their agenda. They are out to destroy Israel. Suicide bombers, rockets, and tunnels have failed. So now it's mass marches on the border  

Israel Warns of Ecological Damage as Gazans Prepare to Burn Thousands of Tires at Border - Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post) Palestinians plan to engulf the Gaza border with smoke and flames from thousands of burning tires on Friday, according to a Gaza source. Videos on social media show hundreds of tires that have already been gathered.

from the Atlantic Israel had warned Gaza residents against protesting, and said Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza, was “cynically” sending women and children “to the security fence and endangering their lives.”

Qatar Has Stopped Supporting Infrastructure Projects in Gaza (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)